Airtel Africa, a leading supplier of telecoms and mobile cash solutions in 14 nations throughout Africa, releases today its 2024 Sustainability Record.
The record highlights Airtel Africa’s development throughout its crucial sustainability targets, consisting of assistance for its individuals and areas, advertising monetary and electronic incorporation, and efforts to minimize the ecological effect of its procedures.
Airtel Africa’s outbound Team chief executive officer, Segun Ogunsanya, stated: “I’m extremely pleased with the strides Airtel Africa has actually made beforehand our sustainability objectives. While targets are crucial to driving adjustment, our objective is a lot larger: to change individuals’s lives with connection, services and products promoting electronic and monetary incorporation while opening the capacity of the future generation.”
The record shares proceed highlights for the business’s 4 sustainability columns: ‘Our company’, ‘Our individuals’, ‘Our neighborhood’ and ‘Our atmosphere’.
Our business: Airtel Africa remained to broaden telecoms solutions, sustaining financial development and advancement throughout the continent. Trick landmarks consist of:
- Expanding the client base to 152.7 million throughout 14 markets
- Attaining ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 accreditations which show Airtel Africa’s conformity with global criteria and dedication to information personal privacy and security
- Expanding the 4G network and getting to 70.7% of the populace in these markets, a 4.9% boost because 2022/23
- Introducing 5G solutions, currently covering 4.14% of clients, largely in metropolitan areas
Our people: Airtel Africaiscommitted to developing a workplace where all workers can attain their complete capacity. Trick landmarks consist of:
- Boosting labor force and management variety, with 35.4% of brand-new or open management functions loaded by females, elevating the depiction of females in elderly monitoring to 22.3%, up from 19.5% the previous year
- Enhancing variety and incorporation and progressing women ability with the ‘Ladies for innovation’ program which profited 54 high carrying out females and caused a 21% boost in interior promos from this team since 31 March 2024
- Investing $1.2 m in training and advancement programme
Our community: Airtel Africa is changing the lives of people, households and areas throughout Africa by developing possibilities for far better futures. Trick landmarks consist of:
- Driving monetary incorporation for unbanked populaces by expanding Airtel Cash’s client base to 38 million individuals. This is especially substantial for the monetary incorporation of females in Africa, that comprise 38% of Airtel Cash’s customers
- Advancing electronic discovering throughout Africa with the five-year $57m collaboration with UNICEF, attaching nearly 1,200 institutions to the net and offering open door to on-line academic systems to hundreds of trainees in 2023/24
Our environment: Airtel Africa is functioning to attend to and reduce the effect of the business’s procedures on the atmosphere. Trick landmarks consist of:
- Posting the ‘Trip in the direction of a web no future’ in May 2023 which lays out the circumstances for the decrease of range 1 and 2 discharges while laying out a near-term target to minimize discharges strength by 62% from March 2022 baseline
- Announcing the range 3 technique in November 2023 which lays out the companions and providers’ interaction program (PSEP) to more breakthrough our interaction with the supply chain
- Launching our brand-new multi-million information centre company, Nxtra by Airtel, in December 2023 and beginning building and construction of among Africa’s biggest information centres in Lagos, Nigeria, which will certainly integrate modern-day power effectiveness to enhance the continuous deal with minimizing carbon discharges throughout existing sites
Airtel Africa’s Sustainability Record 2024 sticks to the Worldwide Coverage Effort (GRI) structure and the GSMA’s suggestions for the telecom sector.
To sight Airtel Africa’s Sustainability Record 2024, see www.airtel.africa
